5 Hour Farbrengen 1976 - Yahrtzeit Rabbi Avraham Levitansky - Rebbe's Shliach

i remind myself of two very special things about the day youth seven the tenth of seven and pastors now say that i'd love to share with you personal experiences let's begin with youtube and today youtube is the yard site of the chassid moniker california rabbi avram halevi levitansky known as avremol levitansky the first time i met avraham levatansky ravi levitansky was in 1980 i believe during the summer or 81 during the summer there was a summer camp and yeah i think it was 81 and my friends and i we were shlokhim from morristown as yeshiva older students to the lobby to yeshiva that was founded in 1978 son had yeshiva and he left israel and he gave over the yeshiva to lubavitch to rabbi cunanan as long as it had the name of his of his father alhanon and the agreement was it will be called which is called that way till today so we were the third group of that were sent from the yeshiva morristown the medical college of maristan where we learned through the yeshiva and it's that summer in 81 that i met rabbi levitansky as a counselor over there this yid was the world would call him would call him in la babbage we we we load a person with the term bananee because the altar ebb and tanya talks about the paradigm jew is the one who can who can control his behavior and thought speech in action and if you could do that dalton ebba calls that individual obeying me but regardless rabbi levitansky was a yid who was completely dedicated to help other yitan the rebbe's vision of abbas israel of loving another yid unconditionally was experienced lived and seen by this avraham levitansky i'll give you an example i was once in his house it was 11 at night so you know somewhere sometime around that time and he was laying on the couch with one foot on the couch and one foot off the couch and he had two phones and he's going to speak and he's answering shiloh's questions i asked him afterwards who are you talking to the two people all in different places of the world not just the states people called them from all over because he was a very big rav and plasic his father-in-law was rabbi handel the chief of of the laboratory community and then later the general community in montreal and he was a son-in-law and he was also a great talmud and besides his abundance and his knowledge in halakha which was massive he had a an understanding of human condition and life and he was accident he was a hasidic jew in discussions i had with him he he he showed me and he taught me how if a yid isn't ready to put himself aside for another jew regardless of the situation he's not worth much i mean everyone's worth everything but you know big deal big big deal if i bring together i learned from him so much another interesting thing he was very ill i think he passed away at 66 in the middle of the 60s he was young he was ill for a while and it there was no secret that he was passing on and he knew it and he told rabbi joseph schusterman the lubavitcher of los angeles that he wants to be buried in his makkah in the place of where there ever sent them to be a schlier which was california he could have easily have been you know buried in new york at the oil but no and he said he he told rubber system and no one he should listen no one should change change his uh his what he wants for himself not his children not his family not his friends not his rabbis no one stays what's going on over here what's going on over here is that levitansky was a yid who was completely dedicated to this type of schliches so this is his yard site the youth seven tomorrow air of shabbos koi desha's passion i remember in 1976 86 96 206 216 25 years ago yep i was 16 at the time and the rebel beta fabregan because the rebels for brain always shabbos after schwarz and this fabregan went from 1 30 on the clock till 7 o'clock i saw it with my own eyes and i didn't understand everything or much you know the fabregan i mean i know yiddish and but the the the concepts and the ideas and it was going on and on and the rabbit then also spent 45 minutes to an hour explaining how you're supposed to learn rashi how you supposed to understand the rashi in the torah and i asked myself rebel we've heard this from you so many times why are you saying this and lo and behold after fabrica i spoke to older students bakrim and they said to me there was a gentleman sitting behind the rabbit he was his name was diane i think mikhail fisher from england he was under besden it was a massive talmud i believe he was a talmud of the prophets prophet and he came to the rabbi he heard so much about the rabbi and he knew the rabbis in england but he never was by the rabbit he was there and he was blown away and he had he was he was ready by the fabric i think schwarz and then he had this during the week and they say he came out from the rabbit sweating and they were foulful they were discussing an indian which later found out to be giuli kale in the section in halakha about kashar and kalim and the rabbis spoke also for an hour during the shabbos fabregan his understanding of the way the halacha would dictate regarding that particular issue of guillotine my understanding was that they had a disagreement and the rebbe went on shabbos to explain his his position and i mentioned this because living through of aprengan in general was a special a special event every fabregan any fabrega but if i bring it lasted five and a half hours for a 16 year old teenager uh that leaves an indelible impression on a person that when the person is 60 and 70 80 years old and older they'll never forget that and this was that was this shabbos 25 years ago a quarter of a century so we remind ourselves of these things and what do we do about it first thing is you have to bring the memories to mind the second thing is we have to use them and we have to live with them and we have to communicate these memories to our children grandchildren students and friends and we must know that although the rebels not for bringing right now so far but gosh mias you don't hear him you don't see him and that's true and that's the reality as it's on the ground now nevertheless the content of the the ideology of the fabregan the liveliness of the fabregan the varankaite the warmth of the fabrega the sinister of the fabregan exists and it only exists if we exist and that we exist as hasidim was a paradigm we look at him as what is a real lubavitcher and we we so his his day is today his yard site and tomorrow we learn about the fabregan of 25 years ago with diane fisher uh being there and everything that went happened we put the two together and we understand that only if you if we will be the shegeet like will we appreciate affabrengan like this fabregan of 25 years ago now even though the physical fabric is not taking place in that sense hashem helped that we all have a good shabbos a good net of shabbos and we should prepare ourselves for mashiach's coming them hey there'll be a menu everyone should be gazunt the gospel is to see no together with all sadiq and every single yid will have amazing mamish now amen